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School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)

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Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
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Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 356

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    and Saturday are thought unlucky days for marrying and also Sunday. April is said to be a lucky month for marriage. They generally give fortune when people are marrying. When the two people are married they give a big dance and they call it a wedding. That morning when they ae coming home they call it a hawling home. And they all come home together some of them get drunk and they come in a cover car, the husband and wife used to be sitting on one car.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Clohesy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    John Fitzpatrick
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Ballydaff, Co. Tipperary

  3. Local Marriage Customs

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    Long ago they used to be married on a Tuesday. They say other days of the week, it was not lucky to marry. When would be married the wives people would meet one eight and the husbands people another night. The men and women used not dance together at all. It used to be all
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